In this paper, we address an open problem raised by Levy(2009) regarding the design of a binary minimax test without the symmetry assumption on the nominal conditional probability densities of observations. In the bin...In this paper, we address an open problem raised by Levy(2009) regarding the design of a binary minimax test without the symmetry assumption on the nominal conditional probability densities of observations. In the binary minimax test, the nominal likelihood ratio is a monotonically increasing function and the probability densities of the observations are located in neighborhoods characterized by placing a bound on the relative entropy between the actual and nominal densities. The general minimax testing problem at hand is an infinite-dimensional optimization problem, which is quite difficult to solve. In this paper, we prove that the complicated minimax testing problem can be substantially reduced to solve a nonlinear system of two equations having only two unknown variables, which provides an efficient numerical solution.展开更多
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文摘In this paper, we address an open problem raised by Levy(2009) regarding the design of a binary minimax test without the symmetry assumption on the nominal conditional probability densities of observations. In the binary minimax test, the nominal likelihood ratio is a monotonically increasing function and the probability densities of the observations are located in neighborhoods characterized by placing a bound on the relative entropy between the actual and nominal densities. The general minimax testing problem at hand is an infinite-dimensional optimization problem, which is quite difficult to solve. In this paper, we prove that the complicated minimax testing problem can be substantially reduced to solve a nonlinear system of two equations having only two unknown variables, which provides an efficient numerical solution.
